The share of textiles, apparel and footwear in total exports from Romania has fallen from about one-third in 2000 to about 10 percent in 2013, although the value of exports has risen from €3.6 billion to €5.1 billion during the ...
China will appeal to the World Trade Organization (WTO) against its ruling that China's regulation of its rare earth exports had violated WTO rules, an official said on Thursday. The appeal will be lodged Thursday, Chinese Ministry of ...
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Indian refining and petrochemical giant Reliance Industries Ltd. Friday reported a 7.9% year-on-year decline in its gross refining margin for the January-March quarter, to $9.30/barrel. However, the company showed an increase of 22.3% ...
Tags: refining, petrochemical, refined products
Taiwan's machinery exports up 9.1% YoY in Q1, 2014. In the first quarter of 2014, Taiwan shipped US$4.6 billion?worth of machines, up 9.1% year on year, according to the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI), which represents ...
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New Zealand-based Turners & Growers has agreed to take over Apollo Apples, a Hawkes Bay-based apples grower and exporter with an initial payment of NZ$36.05m. Apollo, which exports about 1.4m cartons of apples every year, owns or leases ...
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World cotton trade is forecast at 39.6 million bales for 2013/14, 15 percent below the previous season. Over the last 2 years, imports by China have driven the trade as China imported more than 20 million bales in both the 2011 and 2012 ...
Tags: cotton, import demand
Carpet exports from Turkey fetched US$ 546.68 million during the first three months of 2014, recording a surge of 9.9 percent, compared to the same period last year, as per the data released by the Istanbul Textile and Apparel ...
India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) has revised the outlook on the cotton sector to negative to stable for FY15 from negative. The agency has also revised the rating Outlook on cotton companies to Stable for FY15 from Negative. This is ...
Tags: Cotton Sector, Ind-Ra
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2014-2015/Q2 2014 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in the first two months of 2014 total EU steel exports fell almost six percent year on ...
Tags: Steel Exports, flat products
In January this year, European stainless crude steel production decreased by three percent to 670,000 metric tons, with German production decreasing by 19 percent, Sweden's production down four percent and Slovenia's production up 24 ...
Brazil's iron oil exports to China in March rose to 12.1 million mt, 4% above the 11.6 million mt exported to that country in March 2013, Secex, Brazil's foreign trade secretary, said in data released Wednesday. The exports had a total ...
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In February this year, Turkey's chrome ore exports amounted to 156,465 metric tons, down 4.65 percent compared to February 2013 and up 6.56 percent compared to the previous month, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical ...
Tags: Ore, Steel, Chrome Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have received a significant increase in orders from first-tier China-based PV module makers and consequently ordered volumes have exceeded available production capacity by 50%, according to ...
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The appreciation of Pakistani rupee against the US dollar has adversely affected export-oriented sectors, including textiles, and the Finance Ministry should look into resolving these issues, said Trade Development Authority of Pakistan ...
Tags: Textile Sector, textile industry
Hamburg-based secondary research organization yStats.com reports in its new publication "Global Cross-Border B2C E-Commerce 2014" that the interconnectedness of the world through the Internet is providing opportunities for online merchants, ...
Tags: E-Commerce, Online Retailers